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The art of self-soothing
“Often we will describe this flooding stage of rage as ‘losing it.’. . . So we cultivate what is sometime known as the art of self-soothing. Soothing can sound self-indulgent, as if we’re coddling ourselves. . . . In reality, we seek to be calmed by the Word of God. And eventually our brain will
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